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We just spent some time with a giant Pacific octopus at the Cal Academy recently.

And by that I mean like we actually got to touch it.

Oh, it like spent quality time for us.

We became friends. Yeah, it like spent quality time for us. We became friends.

Yeah, it like hooked its tentacles around our arms.

Definitely sampled my chemistry.

Yeah, let's just say.

This is all for our recent video series on Tested called Science in Progress.

We teamed up with Adam Savage. He made a puzzle for the octopus to solve as part of

keeping that octopus stimulated. What did you think about the experience of hanging out with the

octopus, though? Oh, it was totally awesome. I have to say, I mean, I was super excited. I was like a kid in a

candy shop even before we got there because cephalophods are so interesting to me because of their

distributed nervous systems.

You know, as a neuroscientist, it's really fascinating to even conceive of the idea of having sort of a

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